The Kite Runner: Week 3, Post A

VOCAB

Ochre: (133) An earthy usually red or yellow and often impure iron ore used as a pigment
Tenets: (145) A Principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

"Despite the sun bearing down like a branding iron..." (144) This is a simile since it uses "like" to compare the suns beating down on Baba and Amir in the market to an iron.

"I burst into giggles. Baba joined in" (162). I think in some ways this is irony, since Baba was always the mature character and only discussed "grown-up" topic, and yet he giggles when thinking of Amir getting married.

"... a rising sun over a new day..." (170) This is a metaphor because it compares a rising to the marriage and new life of Amir.

QUOTE

"We closed the door. Baba never woke up" (173). This quote was tough because Baba was there for Amir from the beginning, and even though they haven't always been best friends, Baba's been the one Amir has always wanted to impress.

THEME

Love can come in all shapes and sizes, since Amir loves Soraya in one way, and Baba, his father, in another, and yet he loves them both tremedously